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1	[[quoteright:202:[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weridbook_1618.png]]]]
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3	->'''Red Mage''': You just fell for the oldest trick in the book, Lich King!\
4	'''Thief''': The one where you get three gullible suckers to make you their undisputed leader?\
5	'''Red Mage''': You just fell for the ''second'' oldest trick in the book, Lich King!\
6	'''Lich''': The trick where you put your soul into a gem so you can't be killed and instead become an invincible ruler of the dead?\
7	'''Red Mage''': You just fell for the '''third''' oldest trick in the book, Lich!\
8	'''Fighter''': You mean attaching two sword hilts by a length of chain--\
9	'''Red Mage''': Okay, that is '''so''' not in trick book!
10	-->-- Webcomic/EightBitTheater, [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/02/10/episode-382-so-many-mortal-coils/ Episode 382]]
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12	TheOldestOnesInTheBook of tricks.
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14	!!Tropes:
15	[[index]]
16	* BackupBluff
17	* BandwagonTechnique
18	* BedTrick: Getting someone to sleep with you by pretending to be their lover, which is rape by deception.
19	* BriarPatching: Tricking someone into doing what you want by convincing them that you don't want them to do it.
20	* CryingWolf
21	* DefensiveFeintTrap
22	* DivideAndConquer
23	* EngineeredHeroics
24	* HeWentThatWay
25	* HoneyTrap
26	* IAteWhat: Tricking someone into eating something unpleasant.
27	* INeverSaidItWasPoison
28	* LookBehindYou: Telling someone to turn around and look at something that's not really there in order to escape the person.
29	* NastyParty
30	* RevengeIsADishBestServed
31	* SlippingAMickey
32	* SleepingDummy
33	* UsefulNotes/TheThirtySixStratagems
34	* TrickingTheShapeshifter: Tricking a shape-shifter into assuming a form where they can easily be defeated.
35	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Manipulating people by pretending that you got hurt.
36	* YouJustToldMe
37	[[/index]]
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40	-->'''[[Literature/KnownSpace "Ursula"]]''': Actually, the oldest trick in the book is kidnapping a couple of teenagers, brainwiping them, waking them up in a prepared habitat, and saying, "[[Literature/BookOfGenesis I made you out of dust and I made her out of one of your ribs]]."

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